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This study investigates the role of regional networks for economic development (RENEDs) in regions suffering from industrial dislocation. It proposes that RENEDs significantly affect regional development. It also investigates the aspects of RENEDs that promote interorganisational collaboration on projects, and examines how RENEDs foster and manage them. The research uses a case study approach, and presents two regions suffering from the decline of their main economic source. These regions are the Hunter region of New South Wales (Australia) and the León province of Castilla Y León (Spain). A pilot study and a survey were conducted in both regions. Three types of analysis were applied: network, statistical and qualitative. The research method makes it possible to replicate research and develop a theory of regional networks for economic development. The results show that success of RENEDs is determined by capital investment generated by the projects, their influence in changing the economic bases of the regions, and the improvement to regional network capital. This study found that frequency of communication is a structural element that significantly affects the production of projects. However, other variables affect projects, such as external pressures from globalisation, government policies and ideologies, and internal constraints from the public, private and civic sectors. This thesis concludes that RENEDs have an important role in regional planning through the formulation of specific projects that target economic disparity. RENEDs represent a system of relationship that enrich the network capital of the regions as an important asset for their future.

El artículo está dedicado al libro de Francisco Bulnes El verdadero Juárez y la verdad sobre la Intervención y el Imperio (1904). Esa biografía cuestionaba la imagen consagrada del expresidente Juárez que, para ese entonces, funcionaba como un nexo simbólico entre liberales de diversas tendencias y era una figura icónica de la modernización mexicana. Si bien la polémica sobre Benito Juárez ha sido abordada anteriormente, en especial por estudios historiográficos, el artículo propone analizar ciertos mecanismos retóricos y discursivos de la escritura de Bulnes que funcionan como tópicos que sostienen su argumentación. En primer lugar, el hecho de que, a pesar del dato biográfico de que Juárez había pasado del mundo oral zapoteca a posiciones de prestigio en la sociedad letrada y política mexicana, Bulnes se apoya en apreciaciones seudocientíficas acerca de la raza para explicar rasgos de la conducta y la personalidad de Juárez. En segundo término, el desarrollo de una exposición de pretensiones sociológicas tendiente a demostrar que esos mismos componentes raciales del sujeto biografiado eran inescindibles de su religiosidad y que esa religiosidad, en su versión católica, era inherente al pueblo mexicano y había propiciado, a fin de cuentas, el culto a Juárez. El proceso de desmitificación de ese culto a Juárez efectuado por Bulnes presenta, entonces, dos ejes interrelacionados: el componente racial y la persistencia de formas pre-seculares de pensamiento que, muy a pesar de las figuras y eventos históricos celebrados por la nación liberal, subyacían en el proceso de modernización mexicano ; This paper is devoted to the book written by Francisco Bulnes, El verdadero Juárez y la verdad sobre la Intervención y el Imperio (1904). It is a biography that questions the former president Juarez's consecrated image which, by that time, was a symbolic nexus for liberals from different tendencies, an iconic figure of the Mexican modernization. The controversy around Benito Juarez was studied before us, primarily by historians. Nevertheless, this article proposes to analyze some rethorical and discoursive features of Bulnes' writing, which function as topics in his argument. First, the biographical datum of Juarez having past from the oral zapoteca culture to a prestigious position in the political and literate Mexican society is turned into a seudoscientific explanation based on race to understand his behaviour and personality. Second, the development of a sociological exposition which tries to demonstrate that the same racial features were related to Juarez religiosity. According to Bulnes, this religiosity, specially catholic, was inherent to Mexican people and it had contributed to the extablishment of Juarez's worship. Bulnes develops a demytholozing process of this worship supported by two intermingled axis: the racial component and the persistence of pre-secular thinking ways which underlay the Mexican modernization process, in spite of the personalities and historical events celebrated by the liberal nation. ; Fil: Fernandez, Cristina Beatriz. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Humanidades. Departamento de Letras. Centro de Letras Hispanoamericanas; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata; Argentina

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This paper presents a developing economy perspective of 'knowledge-based development'. The observation is made that in order to avoid some of the negative consequences of globalisation, developing countries need policy instruments quite different from those that prevailed among developing countries through the 1980s and 1990s. The current development of science and technology policy in Mozambique is presented as an example of how national S& T policies in developing economies might be redirected toward achieving this. The Mozambique case suggests a way forward for developing countries to adopt alternative S&T policy approaches from those that have generally prevailed elsewhere. This is essentially an inclusive rather than exclusive approach to science and technology, and one that serves to bridge 'knowledge systems' rather than simply building links between scientific institutions and industry.

The shrinking city phenomenon is a multidimensional process that affects cities, parts of cities or metropolitan areas around the world that have experienced dramatic decline in their economic and social bases. Shrinkage is not a new phenomenon in the study of cities. However, shrinking cities lack the precision of systemic analysis where other factors now at work are analyzed: the new economy, globalization, aging population (a new population transition) and other factors related to the search for quality of life or a safer environment. This volume places shrinking cities in a global persp

We measure the contribution of worker flows across employment, unemployment, and non-participation to the change in unemployment in eleven EU countries during the period 2006-2012, paying special attention to which socio-demographic groups in each of the countries were mostly affected by job creation and job destruction during the crisis. We find that age, to a larger extent than educational attainments, is the main determinant of flows from employment into unemployment, particularly in those countries where unemployment increased by most. Secondly, we highlight some institutional features of the labour market (employment protection legislation, unemployment insurance, and the incidence of active labor market policies) that help to explain the cross-country differences in flows between employment and unemployment and in their socio-demographic composition. Finally, we examine if the crisis has led to some employment reallocation across sectors, finding that, so far, there is no clear evidence in favor of cleansing effects.

AbstractUrban shrinkage is not a new phenomenon. It has been documented in a large literature analyzing the social and economic issues that have led to population flight, resulting, in the worse cases, in the eventual abandonment of blocks of housing and neighbourhoods. Analysis of urban shrinkage should take into account the new realization that this phenomenon is now global and multidimensional — but also little understood in all its manifestations. Thus, as the world's population increasingly becomes urban, orthodox views of urban decline need redefinition. The symposium includes articles from 10 urban analysts working on 30 cities around the globe. These analysts belong to the Shrinking Cities International Research Network (SCIRN), whose collaborative work aims to understand different types of city shrinkage and the role that different approaches, policies and strategies have played in the regeneration of these cities. In this way the symposium will inform both a rich diversity of analytical perspectives and country‐based studies of the challenges faced by shrinking cities. It will also disseminate SCIRN's research results from the last 3 years.RésuméLa décroissance urbaine n'est pas un phénomène nouveau. De nombreux travaux ont analysé les problèmes sociaux et économiques conduisant au départ de populations et résultant dans les pires des cas à l'abandon d'îlots d'habitat et de quartiers entiers. Cependant, l'étude de la décroissance urbaine doit aujourd'hui tenir compte du constat récent selon lequel ce phénomène est désormais global et multidimensionnel, tout en restant peu appréhendé dans toutes ses composantes. Ainsi, alors que la population mondiale est de plus en plus urbaine, les conceptions classiques du déclin urbain méritent d'être réexaminées. Ce symposium inclut des articles de dix chercheurs travaillant sur trente villes à travers le monde. Ils appartiennent au Shrinking Cities International Research Netwok (SCIRN), dont le travail collectif a pour objectif d'analyser différents types de décroissance urbaine et le rôle que les multiples approches, politiques et stratégies ont joué dans la régénération des villes touchées par ce processus. Ce numéro s'appuie sur une diversité d'approches et sur l'étude de contextes urbains variés, ayant pour point commun d'être concernés par les enjeux de la décroissance urbaine. Il permet de diffuser les résultats des recherches menées au sein du SCIRN au cours des trois dernières années.

Applying games in education provides multiple benefits clearly visible in entertainment games: their engaging, goal-oriented nature encourages students to improve while they play. Educational games, also known as Serious Games (SGs) are video games designed with a main purpose other than pure entertainment; their main purpose may be to teach, to change an attitude or behavior, or to create awareness of a certain issue. As educators and game developers, the validity and effectiveness of these games towards their defined educational purposes needs to be both measurable and measured. Fortunately, the highly interactive nature of games makes the application of Learning Analytics (LA) perfect to capture students' interaction data with the purpose of better understanding or improving the learning process. However, there is a lack of widely adopted standards to communicate information between games and their tracking modules. Game Learning Analytics (GLA) combines the educational goals of LA with technologies that are commonplace in Game Analytics (GA), and also suffers from a lack of standards adoption that would facilitate its use across different SGs. In this paper, we describe two key steps towards the systematization of GLA: 1), the use of a newly-proposed standard tracking model to exchange information between the SG and the analytics platform, allowing reusable tracker components to be developed for each game engine or development platform; and 2), the use of standardized analysis and visualization assets to provide general but useful information for any SG that sends its data in the aforementioned format. These analysis and visualizations can be further customized and adapted for particular games when needed. We examine the use of this complete standard model in the GLA system currently under development for use in two EU H2020 SG projects. ; This study is part of the RAGE project. The RAGE project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 644187. This publication reflects only the author's view. The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.